Continuing in CVLife’s lineup of mashing animal names and random words, they’ve come up with a new one: EagleVanta. “Vanta” means “boast” in Italian, and this scope boasts ultra-high definition glass. In my testing, I found the glass was color-accurate and bright. I like its BDC reticle, which is simple and easy to aim with a daylight bright horseshoe reticle.
While not quite as refined as a Vector Optics Continental, the EagleVanta boasts a build and appearance that puts it at the top of CVLife’s LPVO lineup. In addition, the EagleVanta comes with a good cantilever mount and a throw lever. Overall, I like the simplicity and practicality of this SFP LPVO. For the price, it checks all the boxes, including value.
The most common hesitancy shooters have with switching to a red dot as their primary optic is the battery and reliability. There’s a fear that the battery will die at the worst possible moment. A few years ago, Holosun came up with a solution by adding a mini solar panel to their micro reflex sights. CVLife has introduced a budget version of this same concept in the Wildhawk X.
The Wildhawk X is a motion-activated, multi-reticle micro reflex with a 2 MOA dot and a 40 MOA circle or a combination of both. The green-dot version features a slightly smaller 32 MOA circle for some reason. Apart from a different colored tint to the lens, there is no functional difference between the two versions. Both feature a RMR footprint with a base almost (but not quite) low enough to use factory iron sights.
The WildHawk is powered by a 1632 coin battery but if the battery power dies, the unit can be powered directly through solar panels built in top of its frame. The unit has no internal battery so the solar panel directly powers the unit. What that effectively means is that the unit does require sunlight or a bright light to function in this mode; it will not work without battery power in the dark. In addition, the solar panel functions as a light sensor when auto-brightness mode is engaged.
The WildHawk runs about half the price of the Holosun HE507C but comes with a lot more accessories. The box includes a MOS to RMR adapter plate, a Pictatinny riser mount, and a whole bunch of screw sets to help you fit it the Wilhawk onto your RMR cut pistol slide.
Micro Reflex sights are becoming increasingly more and more reliable. But even a 50,000-hour run time is a theoretical maximum under ideal conditions. Adding a solar panel as a backup power source makes a lot of sense.
CVLife continues to put out dependable budget-priced optics with increasingly better features. This scope features Japanese ED glass, which offers improved sharpness and clarity while reducing chromatic aberration. This newest scope changes up their previous turret design with something that feels vaguely like a Vortex turret that got stretched taller. It even has a similar zero-stop ring and pin system to a Vortex Strike Eagle.
The scope comes with a decent set of rings and a throw lever. The rings have a thick anodized coating common with budget rings, designed to cover over the hard edges and lack of refined milling. The rings do feature a recoil lug and Torx screw for better holding power.
The scope performed well in tracking and optical clarity. Its main shortfalls were its heavy weight, tight eyebox, and small exit pupil at 6x in particular. Despite this, with a street price below $250, it’s a good example of a budget, entry-level long-range competition scope. It may not beat the quality of scopes from Athlon, Burris, or Vortex, but it beats those brands’ entry-level offerings for value and price.
The Eagle Blaze series CVLife’s newest attempt to put out a step-up from basic scope. With the 7-35×56 FFP they largely succeeded. This scope has a focal plane (FFP) tree reticle, zero stop, and uses Japanese ED glass.
The turrets push down to lock, are user-resettable with a coin, come with a zero-stop ring, and have audible and tactile positive clicks. But the turret top must be severely cinched down or else the turret top will twist from its position. You are better off leaving the turret in the up, unlocked position; otherwise, your numbers will not sync to your zero.
Optically, the ED glass did reduce chromatic aberration. While the glass is not as sharp as more expensive scopes, its higher magnification top end compensates for this loss in detail and resolution. I was able to resolve lines into the Group 0 section of the USAF chart.
CVLife continues to improve the quality and features of their long-range optics line. While not the dirt-cheap but basic, sub-$100 prices that CVLife became known for, this 7-35×56 Eagle Blaze comes in at a sub-$500 street price. This makes it possibly the cheapest 35x scope with Japanese ED glass.
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CVLife is known for producing basic budget scopes. Some would derisively call them airsoft grade. Recently, they’ve upgraded their product line with more feature-rich optics. The Bear Swift is a 1-10×28 LPVO with a wide 34mm tube for an impressive 80 MOA range of adjustment. The box includes the scope with flip-up lens caps, 2 button batteries, and an offset mount. The mount is basic with unmatched rings and lacking recoil lugs but they are marked with their recommended torq settings for its screws. The scope costs just under $200 on Amazon https://amzn.to/3FcbDl6 which puts it in the same price tier as a Montstrum Panzer. The Vortex Crossfire is also the same price but it is only a 1-4x SFP.
The scope appeared nicely designed and constructed. Better than most expect for a budget scope. It has resettable, locking turrets that are tactile positive with loud and distinct clicks. Its illumination knob has 5 brightness settings in red and green with an off in-between each color half. The magnification right turned smoothly and comes with a very short screwed in throw lever.
The scope has a First Focal Plane (FFP) reticle that appears to be a copy of the Vortex Razor HD. The reticle is very thin and hard to see at 1x but unlike the Razor HD, the illumination of the Bear Swift is only average in red and not daylight bright. It’s green brightness is rather dim. At 10x the reticle is much more usable but like many 1-10x FFP, the eyebox is tight and unforgiving.
Optically, the scope exhibited a slight image distortion and wasn’t the flattest image at 1x. But the glass had good clarity and sharpness and reduced chromatic aberration. The initial sample I received from CVLife had a small optical defect. The reticle was parallax focused at 100 yards and exhibited a slight 1/2 shift at 100 yards. Despite this parallax shift, I was able to stay on target during live-fire testing, and the scope retained zero after 50 rounds of .556. I sent photos and a short video to CVLife to explain this issue, and they quickly sent me a replacement without defect.
The Bear Swift’s features and glass clarity make it a good value for a $200 scope, putting it on par with the Monstrum Panzer series and better than most entry-level FFP LPVOs from bigger-name brands. If CVLife could improve its weak reticle illumination and the overly thin 1x reticle design, this would be an amazing budget scope.
Before I knew anything about high power scopes, I purchased a CVLife 6-24×50 AOR scope for my AR15 and happily used it at 100 yard targets. It was basic, out-dated, but cheap, and surprisingly reliable. “Walmart” quality is where I’d position their scopes, but recently they’ve attempted to bring themselves up to the level of “Target” or “Sheels”.
The Eagle Blaze is CVLife’s most ambitious attempt to date to put out a true long-range optic. The scope has 5-25x magnification range, a usable first focal plane (FFP) Christmas tree reticle, a zero stop, and using Japanese ED glass. On paper this looks like a legitimate PRS-style scope with an eyebrow raising $299 street price.
To achieve this low price, there must be compromises. The turrets are user resetable with a coin, come with a zero-stop ring lock, and have audible and tactile positive clicks. But they have a flaw. Unless the turret top is insanely cinched down, the turret will turn lose after locking down losing, rendering its push-to-lock feature useless.
In my testing I found that twisting free a “locked” turret does not move the reticle. It essentially makes the turret free floating. You are better off leaving the turret in the up-position at all times, otherwise your numbers will not sync to your zero.
Optically, the ED glass did reduce chromatic aberration. But in low light (in a shaded target cove), the scope lost a lot of detail and contrast. While this is a liability to hunters who need the ability to take game after sunset, the Eagle Blaze is a surprisingly good scope in broad daylight.
CVLife continues to improve the quality and features of their long-range optics line. This scope fumbled the execution but the play was solid. I look forward to a correction and improvement soon.
Micro-reflex sights with reticles that can be changed between dots and circles are rare. Rarer still are compact red dots that fit on a compact pistol. CVLIfe’s WolfCover X M01 has that rare compact MRD with a changeable reticle that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
The M01 compact MRD has built-in fiber optic rear sights that are a bit too high to use with factory sights but can be used with raised front sights. The box comes with an MOS adapter plate and a Picatinny adapter. The CVLife was a bit small for my slide, so I opted to test it with the Glock EOM RMSc adapter plate.
I ran 50 rounds through my pistol and the M01 held zero. The 32MOA circle looked just a tad smaller than the 32MOA circle on my OSight and I found myself wanting a bit more visual separation between the 2MOA dot and the sunburst circle. I hope CVLife offers a 40MOA or 60MOA circle option in the future.
One other minor nitpick was that the white paint they used to fill in the logo and lettering was a bit sloppy and smeared in places. This is not unusual for a budget product as compromises have to be made and corners have to be cut to lower production costs. If it’s just the paint job, I can live with that.
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The winner will be chosen at random by the SPONSOR from among the entrants that demonstrated the skill to navigate the electronic entry and have met the minimum requirements. Winners will be contacted via the email used to enter the contest no later than December 31, 2024. Winner must have a legal address within the US to ship the prize.
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CVLife is known for making very budget gear. Not crappy junk, but very basic budget gear. The kind of quality you expect from Bass Pro branded accessories. So usable enough for range use, weekend airsoft, or the occasional hunt. I’m not too proud to run a CVlife reflex sight on my 10/22 and a bidpod on my Savage Axis, but it’s not a brand you flex.
This new LPVO surprised me because it’s feature set is actually as good or better than the entry level LPVO’s of other brands. Certainly it’s not as sharp and clear as a Leupold or Vortex LPVO with ED glass. But the image was far more distortion free at 1x than some more premium LPVO’s I’ve tested.
The reticle design reminded me of Trijiicon or the Primary Arms ACSS. The EagleTalon has a SFP Horseshoe of Death and a small chevron (the latter was a wee bit too small IMHO). The reticle was daylight bright, though barely; but still more visible than than many LPVOs I’ve tested.
The turrets are exposed and user resettable. The clicks were a bit mushy feeling but tracked accurately. The magnification was a wee bit stiff even with the included screw-in throw lever. Most notably, the unit came pre-installed with a decent cantilever offset mount (not premo but decent enough that I wouldn’t replace it).
With this optic, CVLife has shown a step up in their quality and features. It’s good enough that I plan to run this at my next falling plates rifle match. Time will tell if CVLife can climb out of their bargain-basement perception. This LPVO with the mount is a good value, and is a good step in that direction.
